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Originally Posted by tompe
Exactly. I do not understand were people get these kind of arbitrary levels of the price that decides of the should buy the book or if it is an insult and so on.
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If the price is much higher then people expect to pay it's viewed as gouging or an insult. Everyone has their own level but you don't want to alienate the majority of your customers.
If a bakery put a price of $20 on a loaf of bread because it just came out of the oven would you pay? If they told you it would be $8 if you came back in 4 hours and $3 if you came back in 12 hours would you go back? I wouldn't.
Pricing is about understanding the market and what people are willing to pay. It's not about "educating the public that the price has to be higher".
I've just observed a lot of anger against publishers and that's not good for the industry.